17 Jun 2015

Spoken Word Group is happy to announce the addition of Mary Jo Caliandro-Hansen as its newest trainer. Recently retired from Schlumberger Limited, Mary Jo Caliandro-Hansen began her career with the world’s largest oilfield services company in New York. During her career at Schlumberger, which spanned over 30 years, she held a range of management positions including Director of Internal...

20 Apr 2015

It’s hard to believe it’s been 5 years since the worst disaster in the history of the Oil and Gas Industry. Here’s an update from NBC’s Kerry Sanders that shows all is not yet forgiven by people on the coast.

02 Mar 2015

It's hard to believe in today's day and age that a CEO would go on 60 minutes completely unprepared to do an interview, but alas on this week's 60 minutes report on Lumber Liquidators the company's CEO Rob Lynch sat down with Anderson Cooper and the result was, well, not good. Here's the clip so you can see for yourself. Not surprisingly, the company's stock was down over 20% at one po...

05 Nov 2014

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTjqwo31MEk Often times in our Media Training we have to explain to participants how much the media today has changed from in years past. One example of this is the lack of knowledge the media now has on many matters that should be obvious. Case in point, this CNBC anchor who has no clue which UK and EU countries use the Pound versus the Euro. Luckily ...

14 Oct 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGx6fSlCWg

Unfortunately, this clip doesn’t need much of a “critique”.  Let’s just say after watching it, it’s important to know your material (In Mrs. Obama’s case, the name of the man she’s there to speak about).

23 Apr 2014

Last week I had lunch with a prospective client in the Oil and Gas industry who spent a number of years with BP, mainly in their Community Relations department.  The topic of conversation quickly shifted to their efforts to install what could be a controversial plant in the Southern Texas area.  I asked him what they were doing to meet any "resistance" from the community towards the proj...